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Christmas STEAM: Design Your Own Christmas Stocking
In this resource, children will look at how Christmas stockings have changed over time before building a prototype. They will then design their own Christmas stocking and making it using textiles and different stitches. Children will then participate in peer- and self-evaluations.
A link to digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw is available upon download.
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Samurai Rising Novel Study **UPDATED
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Samurai Rising by Pamela Turner. The pack has been designed in alignment with Common Core Reading Standards for Grades 6-8.
About the Novel: A samurai fights for honor and survival in a real-life Game of Thrones.
Stirring narrative nonfiction recounts the rise of Minamoto Yoshitsune from seemingly doomed infant to immortal warrior-hero (and one of the most famous samurai in Japanese history). Acclaimed author Pamela S. Turner delivers all the drama, romance, and tragedy of the original story–with delightfully dry wit and a healthy dose of modern perspective. Gorgeous ink paintings by celebrated graphic-novelist Gareth Hinds complete this irresistible package.
About the Resource:
Chapter Summaries
Comprehension Questions (two for each chapter)
Digging Deeper (setting, character analysis, point of view, big ideas)
Creative Writing Tasks
Non-Fiction Tasks (Yoshitsune Minamoto, Kiyomori Taira, bushido, Go-Shirakawa, samurai, Kyoto)
A digital copy of the file on Google Slides is available with download for students to edit online instead of printing the pack.
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Mission to Mars: Report on Significant Person or Event (Historical Sources)
**Updated with new graphics and Google extension
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This 35-page resource has been designed to use as a guide to studying significant people and events in the US space program.
Children will learn the difference between primary and secondary sources before using them in a presentation to teach their peers.
Digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Teams & Athletes: Design an Olympic Medal (Form and Textiles)
Great to use with the 2018 Olympic Games!
In this resource, children will investigate different Olympic medals, analysing their design and at how they have changed over time.
Children will then design, make, and evaluate their own medal and ribbon, using different art skills.
A link to digital files for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave BUNDLE
This 302-page bundle is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with the novels** The Girl of Ink and Stars** and The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novels.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Five Little Indians Novel Study
**This 132-page resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop with Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.
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About the Novel: Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.
Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.
Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.
With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.
About the Resource: This pack includes Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character, setting and plot studies, point of view), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Sweat lodge; smudging; Indian Act; residential school; American Indian Movement; reconciliation)
A link to a digital file for editing and use in paperless classrooms, as well as a printer-friendly version of the file are available with download.
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All the Light We Cannot See Novel Study
**This 174-page resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6.
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ABOUT THE NOVEL: NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Timesbestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (French Resistance, Saint-Malo, radio, stormtroopers, blindness, Braille, State Youth, N.P.E.A., Stuka, Dresden Green, H.M.S. Beagle, Foucault’s Pendulum, Jewish star, Operation Typhoon, Invasion of Normandy, sonderkommandos).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Design Your Own Video Game Character
Children will look at popular avatars from different video games, including Super Mario, Bowser, Link, and Donkey Kong. They will look at how their design has changed over time, and will compare how characters are similar and different.
Children will then design their own video game characters; a hero and an enemy.
In the past I have used this alongside a unit on designing a video game on Scratch, where the children can include their avatar in their game. To do this, we took photos of the drawn characters and then edited them online before uploading them to the program.
A link to digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw is available with download.
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Ancient Benin Study: Design the Head of an Oba
This resource is meant to be used by children in Key Stage 2 (English objectives pitched to Years 5 and 6) to investigate the history and significance of the commemorative heads made to honour the Oba of Ancient Benin.
Children will first read about the heads through differentiated articles, then investigate the symbolism of different commemorative heads. They will then design their own commemorative head before carving it out of a bar of soap and evaluating their design.
Lastly, children will write an explanation text about their commemorative head.
Sequence of Sessions:
Research Ancient Benin
Investigating different examples of art commissioned by Obas of Ancient Benin
Investigating the significance of animals in commemorative heads of Ancient Benin Obas
Design own Oba head
Carve own Oba head
Evaluate own Oba head
Features of an Explanation Text
Write an Explanation Text
There is also a digital file included for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.
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Vikings: Trade vs. Plunder Persuasive Text
Children will learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England before writing a persuasive text.
The text can be written from the perspective of a monk or a Viking, and is meant to persuade (or dissuade) their audience - either monks or Vikings - from trading with or plundering a monastery.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Vikings: Monastery Invasion Narrative Writing
Children will learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England before writing a narrative text.
The text can be written from the perspective of a monk or a Viking during the raid of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in North-East England in 793 CE.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Explaining Changes in Video Game Characters
Students analyse the changes in different popular video game characters before designing their own. Students then write an explanation text about a video game character.
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Mission to Mars: Chronological Study of the Space Program (Explanation Text)
Updated with new graphics and Google extension
This 26-page resource has been designed to use as a guide to studying the US space program’s chronology.
This Outcome will allow children to research how different aspects of NASA’s space program have changed over time, including space shuttles, spacesuits, and space exploration.
Children will then write an explanation text following the 2014 National Curriculum English Objectives for Year 6.
Link provided to digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.
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Teams & Athletes: Sports Equipment Design (Explanation Text and Persuasive Text BUNDLE)
Great to tie in with the 2018 Olympic Games!
Children will look at how sports equipment has changed over time before making a modification of their own.
Children will follow the DT process outlined in the 2014 National Curriculum of England, designing their own prototype, making their prototype, and then participating in peer- and self- evaluation of their prototype.
When finished the design process, there are also resources included for writing an explanation text (of how their sports equipment has changed over time or how their new sports equipment modifications will work); and writing a persuasive text including an advert about their product.
A link to digital files for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Fortune Hunters: Crown Study (Chronology & Explanation Text)
Children will learn about the significance of crowns before looking at their chronology and writing an explanation text either about how they have changed over time or the significance of the different parts of a crown.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital file for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available by clicking on the links provided with download.
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Ancient Sumer: Design an Instrument
Children will participate in a short study of the importance of music in Ancient Sumer as well as the instruments used. Children will have opportunities to look at instruments uncovered by archaeologists studying the area and will learn about the science of sound before designing, making, and evaluating their own instruments.
All learning objectives are aligned with the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is provided with download.
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Teams & Athletes: Design a Team Jersey (with Explanation Text)
Children will look at how sports team logos have changed over time before designing a team logo of their own. Children then repeat the same structure, this time looking at team jerseys. Last, they will write an explanation text of how logos or jerseys have changed over time.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. Links to the Common Core State Standards are also outlined, where appropriate.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available by following the link provided at the time of download.
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Sylvia & Aki Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling. The pack has been designed in alignment with Common Core State Standards for Grade 7 Reading.
About the Novel: Young Sylvia Mendez never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle. Young Aki Munemitsu never expected to be sent away from her home and her life as she knew it. The two girls definitely never expected to know each other, until their lives intersected on a Southern California farm in a way that changed the country forever. Who are Sylvia and Aki? And why did their family stories matter then and still matter today? This book reveals the remarkable, never-before-told story—based on true events—of Mendez vs. Westminster School District, the California court case that desegregated schools for Latino children and set the stage for Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education at the national level.
About the Resource: The pack has been designed to cover five weeks, with assigned pages for reading, comprehension tasks and language analysis.
**A digital copy of the file is also available on Google Slides for students to complete online instead of printing.
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Make me a Conquistador - CV Persuasive Writing FREEBIE!
*Updated with new graphics
Children will practice their writing with changes in formality by writing a cover letter and CV as a Conquistador.
Other packs that can support this pack:
Mayan Civilisation Study: History & Geography
Diet of a Conquistador: Science & DT
Mayan Civilisation Study: Art & DT
In the past, I have used this pack at the end of a unit looking at the Conquistadors and their conquest of the New World so that the children are able to contextualise the CVs. Alternatively, the King of Spain might post a job advert and the same English standards can be met that way.
A digital copy of the file is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following the link provided with download.
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Write a Eulogy for Blackbeard FREEBIE
Included is a mini writing assignment that I have used for an extra credit opportunity in grades 7 and 8 ELA and Social Studies.
Students will have a background in pirates before being given the assignment, but it is also adaptable for different significant people, as well. When I have assigned it, I have also reviewed features of eulogies and compared them to different styles of writing.